Hong Kong university removes Tiananmen massacre statue(apnews.com)

19 pointsby hardmaru5 lat temu6 comments

Hong Kong university removes Tiananmen massacre statue

https://apnews.com/article/arts-and-entertainment-beijing-hong-kong-national-security-8f6a67e2b4b6b1a73b7ca7c5a583026d

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Hong Kong university dismantles and removes Tiananmen statue from campus (https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-univers...)

cable26005 lat temu

Deleting history.

145 lat temu

I wonder what other campaigns over the generations have taken place to change the public’s view on history? It is getting harder now days in the digital world but China sure thinks it can.

showerrain5 lat temu

It includes everything we believe. One benefit of being the winner is to decide how the story is told.

cable26005 lat temu

We have a movement in the USA of removing statues of slave owners or Southerners in the Civil War. Instead of learning from history to avoid repeating it, we are deleting history like the Chinese are.

nhinck25 lat temu

Removing statues venerating oppressors is not the same thing as deleting history.